I kinda like the function litterals which are way shorter than the cumbersome "function()" default syntax
This is fucking ridiculous. If you get "distracted" by dollar signs identifying variables and semicolons on statements, you need serious amounts of medication.
It's no surprise the same mind that gets distracted by a fucking semicolon would suggest a combination of slashes pipes and +/- signs to indicate member type/visibility.
The +- thing comes from objective-C IIRC
This is a horrible idea.... I love PHP but do we really need this? I think not!
Well, you could try to improve the language by hacking on the parser. That would be quite easy to do :)
the \|/+- chars are a bit difficult to read. Maybe unicode chars would be easier to read?